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Tamer Çiçekçi

An entrepreneur based in Istanbul. At thirty he took over Reha Medin, one of Turkey's long-established real estate brands, grew it to sixty-four offices and twenty international agencies, and became the Turkish counterpart of global groups such as DAMAC and Sumitomo. With the lead-free radiation shield of Turing Kimya, which he founded, he took first place at TEKNOFEST 2021. These days he is rebuilding established business structures with artificial intelligence.

Highlighted records

  1. 2021

    First at TEKNOFEST 2021: Turing Kimya's lead-free radiation shield won the grand prix of the Istanbul International Invention Fair, held as part of TEKNOFEST, among 252 patents and more than forty thousand teams (ISIF'21 Grand Prix).1

    Turing Kimya
  2. 2019

    Reuters, The New York Times and Argentina's Clarín asked for his view on the Turkish housing market.23

    Press
  3. 2009 – 2013

    Reha Medin opened a new office every six weeks for twenty months; the network reached sixty-four offices, twenty international agencies and more than 250 staff.45

    Reha Medin
  4. First in Turkey

    Automatic sharing of real estate listings between systems was started with sahibinden.com; the connecting software was written by Reha Medin's own team.5

    Reha Medin
  5. 2016

    For the first time in Turkey, an airline and a real estate company signed a joint marketing agreement: Atlasglobal and Reha Medin.6

    Reha Medin
  6. 2014

    He became Turkey representative of Dubai-based DAMAC Properties; the same year consultancy for Japan's Sumitomo group began. Tamer was the Turkish counterpart of Sumitomo's planned investment of about half a billion dollars in Istanbul.78

    Reha Medin
  7. 2019

    Coffee Castello, in its sixth month, became coffee supplier to 67 hotels in Turkey of Accor, one of the world's largest hotel groups.95

    Chronology
  8. 2012

    Reha Medin won the sales and marketing tender for the Mashattan project in Maslak against 21 firms: 433,821 square metres, 1,850 homes.10

    Reha Medin

The record

  1. 01Reha MedinTaken over at thirty; fifty offices, global partners, firsts in Turkey.
  2. 02Turing KimyaA lead-free radiation shield; grand prix among 252 patents.
  3. 03PressFrom Reuters to The New York Times, since 2009.
  4. 04Awards and patentsFour science awards, international and European patents, his own invention.
  5. 05ChronologyFrom age twelve to today, across four sectors.
  6. 06ProjectsCurrent and paused work, one line each.
  7. 07Work togetherRebuilding established business structures with AI.
  8. 08Claude's readingA signed commentary by the AI that compiled the record.

From Claude's reading

What connects the sectors in this record is not a field but a habit: putting the evidence at the start of the work. The material was measured by the atomic energy authority before it reached the market; as the real estate network grew, each step was carried to the press and to international round tables. Nothing was scaled before it could be explained to outsiders.

Claude · Read the full reading

Today

These days Tamer is rebuilding established business structures with artificial intelligence.

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Sources

archive Document held in Tamer Çiçekçi's archive; no online copy. statement Tamer Çiçekçi's own statement or post.

  1. 1TÜRKPATENT — official ISIF'21 announcementAnadolu Ajansıdocument
  2. 2Reuters story via Daily Sabah, 18 September 2019 — "said Tamer Çiçekçi, general manager of Reha Medin"document
  3. 3Meeting with New York Times correspondent Peter S. Goodman, 10 October 2019 — Tamer Çiçekçi's archive, post with photosarchive
  4. 4Ekonomist Mortgage Market, April 2011, pp. 16–17 — 50 offices, an office every six weeks, VIP Assistdocument
  5. 5Tamer Çiçekçi, 12 October 2026statement
  6. 6Atlasglobal partnership presentation, 3 November 2016; exclusive brokerage and advertising contracts, 21 October and 4 November 2016 — archivedocument
  7. 7Hürriyet Daily News — "Damac to woo Turks with luxury projects", 13 August 2014Milliyetdocument
  8. 8Tamer Çiçekçi, LinkedIn — "The relationship between economics and politics", February 2015Sumitomo Corporationdocument
  9. 9Castello — Accor supply contract, 27 September 2019 — archiveAccorarchive
  10. 10Turkish Time — Reha Medin wins the Maslak Mashattan sales and marketing tender, 9 July 2012document